• we just enjoyed our Aloo Muter Gajar full of Rice, Paratha and a can of DP! #
• perhaps some guitar hero tonight is in order?! but first, i must pick out my outfit [the rumor is that i'm wearing sequin to the steppe ... #
• i must pick out my theater outfit [the rumor is that i'm wearing sequin to the steppenwolf]! That’s a queering of gender politics! #

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Why Buying a Nintendo Wii

Is Worth It

I should mention to you that I already have a wii!  That’s right, this highly analytical and bookish nerdy queer person has a wii!  I actually find it quite an interesting piece of technology!  Furthermore, many of my “smart” friends do too!  And, for those friends of mine who don’t own a wii, they enjoy coming over and playing! 

So, what does Alternet’s Culture article have to tell us about the “worth” of the wii?  Read on, my friends!

For the holidays, I don’t want to do something nice for the earth. I don’t want to buy special laptops loaded with Western video games and imagery for kids in Africa without computers. I don’t want to get handmade iPod covers from the Etsy online store that nurtures local craftspeople. And I don’t want to go off-line for a day to commune with people in the real world.

I want toxic Chinese toys covered with paint that will make me hallucinate. I want a sparkly-crap mobile phone that will break within a week and turn into circuit-board garbage that cannot be recycled and will therefore be shipped to developing countries where it will be hacked and resold. I want a media device that’s wrapped in so many layers of plastic and nonrecyclable material that the very act of opening it is like smashing my carbon footprint onto the face of Mother Earth. I want a useless gizmo mass-produced by machines that stole jobs from nonunionized workers who stole jobs from the natives.

In short, I want a Nintendo Wii.

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I have just finished a note for a friend of mine who has given me a tremendous gift.  I received the gift in September but I have only now been able to respond with words.  What was given to me in September was a bracelet w/ a metal inscription reading: 

listen to your soul

Listening has been something that I’ve been trying to do, since that fateful Sunday meeting in 2006.  Attempting to find the voice of my soul meant that I locate my soul for it was certainly displaced.  I believe I have located my soul and the voice of my soul is slowly emerging.  Though we are in the midst of Advent, I’m not yet brimming with hope.  I’m hoping that this tremendous gift becomes a means of re-orienting myself:  my soul and all. 

The bracelet has been for me a means to find myself and relocate my identity.  Its that feminist call to embody all things good while seeking to stand fast against marginalization and displacement of identities.  Perhaps the gift giving was the most powerful feminist and queer offering that I’ve ever experienced.  Feminist for its liberating horizon that this bracelet provies for me and queer for the way the gift has become a sort of liberating and eucharistic symbol.

Thank you Laura, though Thanks just doesn’t seem like enough…

Now, we’re heading to the Steppenwolf tonight with our good friends and I’m so very excited!